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Bob Casey Jr.: “The Pennsylvania law was called Act 77 in Harrisburg. But…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

[LIVE] Drive-in Town Hall with Sen. Bob Casey - Monaca, PA

Published May 7, 2021 | Video Starts at 49:32

We should try to advance, we should try to advance forward on voting rights like I think we did with, I think The Pennsylvania law was called Act 77 in Harrisburg. But that was an advancement and it came at an opportune time. But what a lot of these bills are doing now is to, is to try to go backwards to erect barriers to the right to vote. (49:32–49:40)

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“We can take a waiting list of 800,000 Americans and get that waiting list down.”
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“They're making, on average, across the country, $12 an hour to do the most important work you can imagine.”
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“There has not been on the floor of the United States Senate a debate about gun violence since 2013.”
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“Background checks [are] supported by all 90% of the American people.”
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“We haven't had a vote [on background checks] since 2013.”
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“The rescue bill has been passed.”
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“The two initiatives that remain are jobs and families, both under the broad category of infrastructure.”
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“The Federal government hasn't done its part over a long period of time [to help families and communities in Beaver county and southwestern…”
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“It's about time we invested in families more and invested in communities.”
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“We need to build back better. And that means a big federal investment in infrastructure.”
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“We have limited funding at the federal level for [home and community-based services].”
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“Home and community-based services workers, mostly women and women of color, make only $12 an hour.”
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“We should have the best home and community-based services in the world.”
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“A big part of what we're trying to do with this jobs bill is to focus on combating climate change.”
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“In a state like ours, we have a lot of our energy that comes from nuclear power and from natural gas.”
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“What's growing, though, in that, in the places we get our energy from are renewable sources of energy.”
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“Politicians in Washington who voted against the bill were saying that [Beaver County's rescue plan funding] should be zero.”
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“The federal government's got to put some dollars on the table, which is what we're trying to do.”
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“Most people would choose to have care in their home or in a community setting.”
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“The jobs plan is important for a lot of reasons, but home and community-based services is at the core of it.”
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“The investment we're trying to make in the jobs plan in transit, whether it's the transit that we have with Amtrak or public transit, is…”
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“The investment in transit was, I think, a Little Light in 2020 in some of those bills, but a much bigger and substantial investment in…”
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“The investments are over eight years, but the impact of the investment in infrastructure is supposed to last decades.”
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“A lot of what we have to do is as we're investing in better sources of clean energy, which I think is going to happen, it's happening.”
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“The jobs plan can incentivize [clean energy investment] even faster.”
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“Law abiding gun owners have nothing to worry about with these bills.”
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“Most gun owners are supporting the background check bill in addition to some other bills.”
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“The best opportunity for [debating law enforcement transparency] in the short run in the Senate is the George Floyd Justice and Policing…”
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“The House passed [the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act] last year and then they passed a new bill just a couple months ago.”
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“Our system of vote by mail... was passed in the state General Assembly by the House and the Senate with broad bipartisan support.”
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“The governor signed [the vote-by-mail bill] into law in 2019, not knowing, of course, we'd have a pandemic.”
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“You have all these voter suppression bills out there, hundreds of them, literally hundreds across the country.”
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“In my judgment, there's two bills we got to pass. One is... HR1 in the Senate, we call it S1... and the second bill is the John Lewis bill.”
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“We got to pass those two bills to ensure that we have voting rights that are protected in America.”
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“Pennsylvania had more voters in this election than I think we've had in any election in state history, certainly in the last 50 to 75 years.”
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“I think it was 6.9 million people voted at the last presidential election.”
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“We were able to defeat the wiping out of all of those health care protections. You know, we almost lost it by one vote.”
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“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many top U.S. companies have called on Congress to increase the international affairs budget.”
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“We passed a hate crimes bill that focused on some of the horrible stories we've seen all over the country, often in more in big cities, were…”
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“The vote was 94 to 1 in the Senate.”
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“We're now working on a bill to put in place strategies to make sure that we're more competitive against countries around the world in an…”
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“China has a big advantage. They've got a Communist party that runs their country and that pretty hard to deal with when they can subsidize…”
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“We have a bill now that I just reintroduced. I've had it for years, haven't been able to get there yet. Pregnant workers fairness.”
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“We've never had a similar provision in law. It was very clear in the law for folks in the workplace who happen to be pregnant women.”
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“My belief is for I want to pass as close to what President Biden proposed as we can on both initiatives.”
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“I think we're going to have to probably do that. You know, the things that I'd like to do, the bigger initiatives that the president's…”
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“One of the best things we did as a country and as a government was to focus on food insecurity around the world.”
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“There was an initiative started at the very end of the George W. Bush administration.”
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“President Obama came into office and had eight years and really ramped it up.”
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“It was called Feed the Future.”
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“Millions of children in the world will not suffer from extreme poverty or extreme hunger because of what our government did.”
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“We have legislation that was passed a number of years ago that I worked on with a group of Republican senators.”
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“The PRO Act is long overdue legislation.”
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“The Department of Labor tells us that [home care and related fields] are among the fastest-growing areas.”
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“The Proact would help with the National Labor Relations Board, which has been sometimes a very corporate majority board.”
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“We're going to vote on the Proact likely as part of a big piece of legislation comparable to the President's jobs plan.”
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